What Has Happened to the Atlantic Salmon?
Because they must migrate up to the headwaters of rivers to spawn, salmon were badly affected when man developed the rivers for navigation and industry, then polluted them and, for hydroelectric schemes, sometimes blocked them. The final disaster was the Greenland fishery that started in the early 1...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0030605300017129 2024-03-03T08:42:46+00:00 What Has Happened to the Atlantic Salmon? Wheeler, Alwyne 1981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300017129 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030605300017129 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Oryx volume 16, issue 2, page 157-160 ISSN 0030-6053 1365-3008 Nature and Landscape Conservation Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 1981 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300017129 2024-02-08T08:31:25Z Because they must migrate up to the headwaters of rivers to spawn, salmon were badly affected when man developed the rivers for navigation and industry, then polluted them and, for hydroelectric schemes, sometimes blocked them. The final disaster was the Greenland fishery that started in the early 1960s. This has now been controlled, but the Atlantic salmon is unlikely to recover its former numbers. Moreover, some of the unique stocks that each river system originally had have been exterminated and others adulterated, so that the Atlantic salmon's original genetic diversity has been irretrievably destroyed. The author, who works on fishes at the British Museum, Natural History, is Chairman of IUCN's SSC Fish Group. Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon Greenland Cambridge University Press Greenland Oryx 16 2 157 160 |
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Because they must migrate up to the headwaters of rivers to spawn, salmon were badly affected when man developed the rivers for navigation and industry, then polluted them and, for hydroelectric schemes, sometimes blocked them. The final disaster was the Greenland fishery that started in the early 1960s. This has now been controlled, but the Atlantic salmon is unlikely to recover its former numbers. Moreover, some of the unique stocks that each river system originally had have been exterminated and others adulterated, so that the Atlantic salmon's original genetic diversity has been irretrievably destroyed. The author, who works on fishes at the British Museum, Natural History, is Chairman of IUCN's SSC Fish Group. |
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